Keir Starmer has identified tests against which to hold the government to account about their negotiations with the EU – protecting workers’ rights and environmental rules, for example. He has developed these by travelling round the country and consulting businesses such as local Bristol employers Airbus, trade unions and others about what they need from a future relationship with the EU, in order to continue to trade and provide good quality jobs.

As a result of this, the Labour Party, unlike all the other parties, has a clear position on what we want from the future relationship between the EU and the UK.

Thangam says: "Labour values are the values I hear and see expressed in Bristol West all the time – internationalist, outward-facing, tolerant, challenging discrimination and hate, building alliances and working together. Now more than ever we have to campaign for these, together, in Bristol and nationally."